[20] Vit. Beat. 17, 1.
[21] M. Havet, Boiss. Rel. rom. vol. ii. 44.
[22] The question is sifted in Aubertin, Sénèque et Saint Paul; and in Gaston Boissier, La Religion romaine, vol. II. ch. ii.
[23] De Vir. Illust. 12. Tertullian (Ap. ii. 8, 10) had said before, Seneca saepe noster; but this only means that he often talks like a Christian.
[24] He afterwards repudiated her, and she died in great poverty. Her act shows a gentle and forgiving spirit.
[25] Claud. 25, "Iudaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantes expulit."
[26] Tac. An. xv. 44.
[27] Hodie tricesima Sabbata, S. I. ix.
[28] We have seen how the great orators Crassus and Antonius pretended that they did not know Greek: the same silly pride made others pretend they had never heard of the Jews, even while they were practising the Mosaic rites. And the number of noble names (Cornelii, Pomponii, Caecilii) inscribed on Christian tombs in the reigns of the Antonines proves that Christianity had made way even among the exclusive nobility of Rome.
[29] Prol. 13; ii. 45.